Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar | |
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Jaar in 2009 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 68–69) Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Known for | Conceptual art, Installation art |
| Notable work | The Rwanda Project, The Skoghall Konsthall, Studies on Happiness |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile) (2013), Hasselblad Award (2020) |
| Website | www |
Alfredo Jaar (English: /dʒɑːr/; Spanish: [ˈɟʝaɾ]; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border. He has been featured on Art:21. He won the Hasselblad Award for 2020.
He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.